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THE LOST WORD FOUND 



THE LOST WORD FOUND 

IN 

THE GREAT WORK 

(MAGNUM OPUS) 
BY J. D. BUCK, 

Author of "Mystic Masonry;" "The Genius of Freemasonry;" 
"Constructive Psychology;" "A Study of Man;" Etc. 



HARMONIC BOOKLET SERIES 
VOL. II 



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INDO-AMERICAN BOOK CO. 

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Copyright by J. D. BUCK 
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Published 1908 



ADDRESSED 



ALL LOVERS OF TRUTH 
AND HELPERS OF MANKIND 



FOREWORD 

WT is due to myself, to my Publishers, 
* and to my Masonic Brethren, as 
well as to all other parties who may be 
concerned, to say, that the following 
pages were written entirely on my own 
initiative and without the suggestion of 
anyone, and that I am therefore entirely; 
and solely responsible for the statements 
therein made. 

Having been for more than forty 
years an "explorer of the Secret Vaults" 
of Freemasonry, and having at last dis- 
covered the "Lineal Key" in the posses- 
sion of one who "knows the combina- 
tion," I desire simply to place this dis- 
covery at the disposal of my Masonic 
Brethren, with the suggestion only that 



they have the same right and the same 

opportunity which I have had, to examine 

the evidence for themselves, and then 

act as seems to them desirable, just and 

right. 

Fraternally, 

J. D. BUCK. 




WHAT IS 
"THE LOST WORD"? 

IHAT is it that was "lost"?. 
Was it merely a "word," 
and nothing more? 
How many are there today who 
have any definite and satisfactory 
idea as to what is meant in Free- 
masonry by "The Lost Word?" 

It would probably be safe to 
say, not one in a thousand. 

How many of those who have 
given the subject serious thought 
and consideration agree in their 
conclusions? 



1 2 The Lost Word Found 

Again it would be safe to say, 
very few. 

But why this uncertainty and 
confusion concerning the one thing 
which, above all others, gives mean- 
ing, or point, or significance to the 
Degree of a Master Mason? 

If assured by competent authority 
and on legal evidence, that "The 
Lost Word" has reference to an 
ancient estate which has been in- 
creasing in value for many thou- 
sands of years, until the distributive 
share of each Master Mason today 
is worth a million dollars in cash, 
and that this vast Masonic Estate 
is now ready for distribution as 



The Lost Word Found 1 3 

soon as a complete roster of the 
Craft can be authenticated, how 
many Master Masons would have 
an interest in "The Lost Word" 
sufficient to see that their names 
were on the roster? 

This is too delicate a subject to 
admit of speculation, lest injustice 
might be done to the real Spirit 
and Geniusof modern Freemasonry, 
as well as to the motives which 
inspire many individual members 
of the Craft. 

There is, however, a sufficient 
reason for the general confusion 
among Masons as to the correct 



14 The Lost Word Found 

Masonic meaning of "The Lost 
Word." 

Sir Albert Pike, our wise and 
revered Masonic Historian, gives us 
a hint of it in his "Legenda," in 
these words: 

"What is most worth knowing 
in Masonry is never very openly 
taught. The symbols are displayed, 
but they are mute. It is by hints 
only, and these the least noticeable 
and apparently insignificant, that 
the Initiate is put upon the track of 
the hidden Secret. 

"It was never intended that the 
mass of Masons should know the 
meaning of the Blue Degrees, and 



The Lost Word Found 1 5 

no pains were spared to conceal 
that meaning." 

Whatever the real cause may be, 
certain it is that no single subject 
within the scope of Blue Lodge 
Masonry has been invested with 
more of real mysticism and occult 
uncertainty than is that of "The 
Lost Word." 

During the course of his prog- 
ress through the ceremony of the 
Master Mason's Degree, each Initi- 
ate is directly or indirectly informed: 

1 . That there is a Grand Ma- 
sonic "Word." 

2. That at the time of the build- 
ing of King Solomon's Temple it 



1 6 The Lost Word Found 

was supposed to be in the posses- 
sion of the Grand Master. 

3. That before the Temple was 
completed some of the craftsmen 
conspired to compel their Grand 
Master to give them the "Word." 

4. That on his third and final 
refusal to give them the "Word" 
he was killed. 

5. That through his death the 
"Word was lost." 

6. That a "Substitute" therefor 
was adopted "until future ages might 
find out the right," and the initiate 
is given that "Substitute." This 
substitute, as every Master Mason 
knows, is a "word," in the ordi- 



The Lost Word Found 1 7 

nary sense of the term, which can 
be pronounced vocally. 

The question now is: What 
was it that was "lost" to Free- 
masonry and Freemasons by the 
death of the Grand Master, 
Hiram? 

Was it a mere word, composed 
of syllables, which can be vocal- 
ized and pronounced, as can the 
"Substitute"? 

Think for a moment: At the 
time referred to there were three 
Grand Masters, in a Masonic sense, 
who were directly interested in and 
identified with "the building of the 
Temple." These were King Solo- 



18 The Lost Word Found 

man, King Hiram of Tyre and 
Hiram Abif . 

If the thing referred to was a 
mere word, all three of these Great 
Masons must have been in posses- 
sion of it. 

In that event it could not have 
been "lost" to the Craft by the 
death of but one of them. It 
would have required the death of 
all three to have lost such a word. 

To get over this impossible ob- 
stacle, the ingenious suggestion has 
been offered, that it was a word of 
three syllables, or parts, and that 
each one of these Grand Masters 
had one part of it only. In this 



The Lost Word Found 19 

case neither one alone could give 
it, but it would require all three; 
and that this was the reason for the 
Grand Master's reply, that it could 
not be given "except in the pres- 
ence of" the other two and himself. 

The inadequacy of this suggestion 
becomes apparent when we remem- 
ber that the very first time these 
three Grand Masters came together 
and pronounced the word, each one 
would thereafter know the whole 
word, and anyone of them could 
thereafter pronounce it. 

It thus becomes clear that the 
thing that was "lost" through the 
death of the Widow's Son was not 



20 The Lost Word Found 

a mere word, in the ordinary mean- 
ing of the term; because no such 
mere word could possiblybe "lost" 
under the conditions which existed 
at the time of that historic event. 

There is, however, a consistent 
meaning for the term "Word," 
which has been and still is in use, 
in both Masonry and the Great 
School back of Masonry, and one 
which meets all the conditions 
perfectly. 

That meaning was and is "An 
Instruction." 

At the time referred to and prior 
thereto, the Great School was the 



The Lost Word Found 21 

source from which the exoteric 
School of Masonry received the 
"Word of Instruction" in the secret 
spiritual knowledge of the ages. 

The Widow's Son was specially 
chosen and prepared by the Great 
School —the Great White Lodge— 
the Brotherhood of Light — to be- 
come the Spiritual Mentor and 
Supreme Grand Master of the 
exoteric Lodge, "when the Tem- 
ple was completed." 

Through his "untimely death" 
the plan of the Great School, for 
the time being, was thwarted, and 
the "Word of Instruction" was in- 



22 The Lost Word Found 

deed "lost" to the exoteric School 
of Masonry "until future ages might 
find it." And so it remains "The 
Lost Word" to this day. 




THE RECOVERY OF THE 
LOST WORD 
1HE whole of the teach- 
ings of Freemasonry clus- 
ters around the existence, 
nature and perfectibility of the 
human Soul by Personal Effort. 

The "first great mile-post," the 
lesson of the first degree, is to set 
man free from ignorance, supersti- 
tion and fear — the "demon of the 
threshold." He is thus, for the 
first time in his progressive evolu- 
tion, set free from the debasing in- 
fluence of all who seek by any 
means whatsoever to enslave his 



24 The Lost Word Found 

soul and make him an asset or a 
chattel of Despotism in any form, 
or under whatsoever name or pre- 
tense. 

At the moment of liberation, when 
he would utilize the revealed Light, 
he is "bound by a stronger tie." 

He then begins the struggle "to 
subdue his passions," the struggle 
for self-control, which is to end in 
Self-Mastery. 

He is found worthy to be free, 
only in the sense and to the degree 
that he undertakes to control him- 
self, and he voluntarily assumes the 
obligation and undertakes the work. 

How far each individual candi- 



The Lost Word Found 25 

date for Initiation realizes the mean- 
ing and senses the obligation thus 
assumed, is a purely personal ques- 
tion. 

But among all the Institutions 
known to man at the present day, 
Freemasonry and the Great School 
back of it are the only ones that 
undertake, with clear intelligence, 
to define man's duty to himself and 
to his fellow men, and to point 
out the lines of self-perfection, 
liberation and higher evolution, by 
an exact ethical formulary free from 
all dogmatism, superstition, fear or 
any ulterior motive whatsoever. 

Freemasonry thus stands as an 



26 The Lost Word Found 

epitome of human wisdom and of 
man's highest achievement to the 
present time. 

It is claimed that "good, square 
work" along these lines, intelli- 
gently apprehended and persistently 
followed, will result in Mastership. 

No intelligent individual who has 
made a careful and thoughtful 
study of the ceremony and dramatic 
ritual of the Lodge, the obligations 
assumed, the explanations and 
charge given and accepted, has ever, 
so far as I know, denied the fore- 
going statements and conclusions. 

How far each individual real- 
izes all this and lives up to it, is not 



The Lost Word Found 27 

a matter now under consideration. 

The intent, the meaning and the 
result, when clearly conceived and 
honestly and persistently followed, 
are all that I am here claiming. 
These concern a knowledge of the 
existence of the Human Soul; its 
liberation from all outward slavery, 
and from the inward slavery of 
selfishness and all evil passions, and 
its perfection by personal effort, self- 
control, equity, justice and right; 
Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth. 

This teaching of the Lodge is 
ritualistic, dramatic, symbolic, and 
monitorial. 

It requires attention, observation, 



28 The Lost Word Found 

thought and application on the part 
of the initiate to realize its con- 
structive results. 

When these logical and legiti- 
mate results are fully realized, that 
is, earned by persistent application 
and work, what is the net result? 
The answer to this question is, a 
Master. 

Let us remember that we are not 
dealing in "compliments." We 
have assumed that the work is real, 
seriously undertaken and persistently 
followed, and if the results are not 
substantial, then is the whole thing 
a farce, a delusion, and a snare; a 
profanation of holy things (if there 



The Lost Word Found 29 

be anything holy), a Tantalus 
worse than that fabled of old. 

"If it were possible for the vain, 
the selfish and the mean, in the 
spiritfof vanity, selfishness and mean- 
ness, to achieve Spiritual Independ- 
ence and Mastership, that fact of 
itself would constitute a complete 
justification of vanity^ selfishness 
and meanness in human life and 
conduct. If it were possible for 
the subtle trickster, the clever pre- 
tender, the vain boaster, and the 
morally degenerate to skulk past 
the Law of Compensation into the 
Kingdom of Spiritual Light, then 
would nature not only condone 



30 The Lost Word Found 

trickery, pretense, vanity and im- 
morality, but would become a party 
to them. If this were possible, 
then also would there be no mean- 
ing in honesty, sincerity, humility 
and morality. For if nature made 
no distinction, why should man? 

"The School of Natural Science 
has demonstrated, through centuries 
of experiment, that there are no 
tricksters nor moral degenerates 
within the 'Temple of Spiritual 
Light,' that there is no subterra- 
nean rear entrance and that all who 
reach its sanctum sanctorum do so 
by way of the front door, and then 
only after having met and complied 



The Lost Word Found 3 1 

with every section and requirement 
of the Law of Light. Each indi- 
vidual admitted to its Sacred Pre- 
cincts has come 'of his own free 
will and accord/ He has given 
'the right knock.' He has proved 
beyond all question that he is 'duly 
and truly prepared, worthy and 
well qualified,' and that upon his 
own merit alone he is entitled to 
'enter and be received in due and 
ancient form.'"* 

It is declared herein unequivo- 
cally that back of all the symbolical 
in Freemasonry lies the actual, the 
real, the substantial and the true; 

* " The Great Work," pp. 265-6. Read whole chapter 
on "Compensation." 



32 The Lost Word Found 

and that it is the real that gives life 
and light and meaning to the ideal 
and the symbolical; that back of 
and beyond the reputed Master 
there is the real Master ; that back 
of, beyond and antedating "Specula- 
tive Masonry," by many centuries, 
there is a Practical Masonry of 
which the Speculative is only a hint, 
a symbol, an outer form. And 
finally; that back of the "Substi- 
tute" known to Speculative Masonry 
there is the real Word, lost only to 
the Speculative and to be "recov- 
ered" and "restored" whenever the 
Lodge really passes from refresh- 
ment to Labor, restores order from 



The Lost Word Found 33 

confusion and finds the true designs 
on the trestleboard. 

"By these signs ye shall know 
him." The trestleboard— the signs, 
the word, the instruction — these are 
the sole criterion of the Master in 
the one case as in the other; in prac- 
tical, no less than in speculative 
Masonry. The "Jewel" will be 
"found on the body," and the Jewel 
is Light, Truth, Love— in perfect 
equilibrium. 

He who can distinguish light 
from darkness, truth from falsehood, 
love from hatred, need be in no 
doubt nor uncertainty about the 
Jewel of the Grand Master. Nor 



34 The Lost Word Found 

need he be in any doubt about re- 
ceiving the true "Word," when the 
Temple is completed by work ac- 
cording to the "designs." He may 
"demand it out of season," or deny 
that it exists at all, if he choose, yet 
he can receive it in but one way, 
viz., by merit and previous profi- 
ciency, as all Masters have done 
who have gone this way before. 
The writer is perfectly well aware 
that many Masons will repudiate 
this serious aspect of Freemasonry 
and pride themselves on their own 
intelligence while shrugging their 
shoulders at the credulity of those 
who take the subject seriously. 



The Lost Word Found 35 

But this real Masonry and this 
serious aspect being true, the penalty 
thus paid by the writer for finding 
some few glimpses of the Truth 
and endeavoring to help others to 
find the same, is small indeed, much 
as he values the respect of his fel- 
low craftsmen. 

It would be perfectly legitimate 
for the student to inquire — "What 
evidence have you that the 'Great 
School' and any real Masters exist 
at all?" 

Passing by the traditions of the 
Lodge and the philosophy of Ma- 
sonic Symbolism for the moment, I 
am ready to admit that the Man 



36 The Lost Word Found 

and the account he gives of the 
existence and present status of the 
Great School must FILL THE BILL 
The man himself must be required 
to show his credentials, not in high- 
sounding titles, "patents" in mys- 
terious characters, signed by— we 
know not whom. 

But his credentials must be of 
manhood and mastership intrinsic- 
ally possessed; of character, of wis- 
dom, of beneficence and of loving 
kindness. Are not these the "de- 
signs on the trestleboard" ? And 
is not the real Grand Master one 
who can furnish them "at sight" or 
"on demand"? 



The Lost Word Found 37 

I hold that any man exhibiting 
such credentials, and so representing 
the Great School, is worthy of, and 
entitled to a very careful considera- 
tion, a conscientious examination to 
see if he can really FILL THE BILL. 

In the first place, "does he seek 
notoriety?" Is he out for "graft"? 
Has he anything to gain personally? 
Does he seek to exploit us? Has 
he unworthy ulterior motives? 
These are all intelligent and legiti- 
mate questions, and he who does 
not ask them is likely to be de- 
ceived any day, by any mere pre- 
tender, just as scores of people are 
deceived and imposed on every day. 



38 The Lost Word Found 

We have one possessed of the 
SIGNS of the Master in the Author 
of "The Great Work." That Work 
is his trestleboard. The designs 
therein revealed and the plans for 
the construction of the Temple of 
the Human Soul therein set forth 
are sufficiently clear, intelligent and 
explicit to enable any intelligent 
man (particularly if he be a just 
and upright Mason) to judge and 
measure his work. The book was 
written, beyond all question, with 
this identical design and for this 
specific purpose; and knowing the 
man as I do, and having the honor 
and the blessedness of five years 



The Lost Word Found 39 

of acquaintance and intimate asso- 
ciation with him and study under 
him, I am entirely satisfied that he 
is prepared to stand on the record 
made in "The Great Work." 

By his work we may know him, 
and by the account therein plainly 
and specifically set forth may we 
judge of the "Great School," the 
School of Natural Science, from 
which he claims to have received 
his instruction, and which he finds 
it his privilege and his duty to rep- 
resent at the present time. His 
message is "Addressed to the Pro- 
gressive Intelligence of the Age" 
in its "dedication." 



40 The Lost Word Found 

Here then, is not a rumor, nor a 
fad ; nor a thing easily to be thrust 
aside; but "cold type," concise 
statements, deliberate propositions, 
made in good English and reveal- 
ing educated intelligence and sin- 
cerity on every page. 

Nothing like it can be found in 
the annals of Freemasonry. It is 
unique. It stands alone. It com- 
mands respect and is bound, soon 
or late, to record the judgment of 
every intelligent and sincere man, 
every just and upright Mason in 
the world. 

Whether the individual Mason 
shall repeat hearsay opinions, pro 



The Lost Word Found 41 

or con; whether he shall approve 
and accept, or disapprove and con- 
demn after a careful reading, is not 
here and now a matter to be con- 
sidered. 

"The Great Work" will have 
to be reckoned with. 

If the propositions contained in 
this book prove true and acceptable 
to any large body of the Craft, 
then the "Future Generations," by 
whom the real word of the Master 
is to be recovered and restored is 
the PRESENT GENERATION and 
THE TIME HAS COME! 

If Freemasonry working with 
only a "substitute" has achieved its 



42 The Lost Word Found 

present status and world-wide be- 
neficence, what may justly be 
anticipated and confidently expect- 
ed of it when it shall have been 
rehabilitated and restored to its 
ancient wisdom and grandeur ? 

The Fraternity is deliberately 
challenged to just this issue in 
'The Great Work." 

It has been shown that Masonry 
concerns itself with the Human 
Soul and the building of Indi- 
vidual Character by Personal Ef- 
fort. 

This constitutes the entire Genius 
of Initiation in Freemasonry. 

Modern Science is just at the 



The Lost Word Found 43 

threshold of real knowledge of 
Psychology, and now postulates 
the Human Soul as an empirical 
FACT. 

So-called Psychological Science 
is still testing phenomena and 
gathering more data with no defi- 
nite theorem in sight. 

Spiritualism has demonstrated 
the existence of a mass of verified 
phenomena outside of physics and 
kinetics and has extended the 
boundaries of Consciousness a plane 
above (" supraliminal" ) and a 
plane below ( "subliminal " ) that 
previously recognized. 

The various religions of the day 



44 The Lost Word Found 

reaffirm the old belief in the ex- 
istence and immortality of the Soul, 
while among both "believers" and 
preachers are found many who dis- 
believe or deny altogether, or claim 
that definite knowledge is im- 
possible. 

Under all these conditions and 
signs of the times, here comes one 
who declares that the human Soul 
is a FACT. "There is no death," 
but transition only. Man may be- 
come "Master" of Life and Death 
and thus demonstrate his power to 
"travel in foreign countries," that 
is, outside the physical body, and 
so demonstrate the persistence of 



The Lost Word Found 45 

the Soul after the change called 
death. 

Meantime it is shown that the 
method of accomplishing this Great 
Work of all the ages, is but the 
fruition, the reward, the legitimate 
consummation of the " Building of 
Character by Personal Effort," as 
illustrated and exemplified in Initia- 
tion into the Masonic Lodge. It 
is the legitimate reward of real 
Mastership and but the normal, 
higher evolution of man under 
natural law. 

Fortunately for man, the historic 
enemy of Freemasonry and Individ- 
ual Liberty cannot "suppress" the 



46 The Lost Word Found 

book — "The Great Work;" and 
persecution of its author, or con- 
demnation and "expurgation" of 
the book itself would only sustain 
the writer and advertise his work 
and impel thousands of the other- 
wise indifferent to read it. 

The modern historic enemy of 
Freemasonry and Human Liberty 
is not "that kind of a fool." 

It is therefore a question which 
Freemasons alone can determine, 
whether they have interest enough 
to examine the intrinsic evidence in 
favor of the Claims of "The Great 
Work," as hundreds of the most 
intelligent men and women outside 



The Lost Word Found 47 

the Craft are already doing with 
the most satisfactory results and the 
most unqualified appreciation and 
approval. 

The message and appeal are 
peculiarly to Freemasons for reasons 
already shown, and it remains to 
be determined whether it shall 
again be recorded — "He came to 
his own and his own received him 
not." 

One thing is certain. — The mes- 
sage is out for all time, and nothing 
short of a cataclysm can now sup- 
press it. 

The active enemy of Human 
Liberty may destroy our Free 



48 The Lost Word Found 

Schools and unite with Mammon 
to oppress the poor, but it will 
never be able to sophisticate " The 
Great Work," nor deprive the intel- 
ligent seeker for truth of his Natural 
and Divine Birthright, nor compel 
him to do penance for daring to 
exercise his Freedom and learn his 
immortal destiny as a Man. 
' They are Slaves ! who will not 
speak 
For the fallen and the weak. 
They are Slaves ! who dare 
not be 
In the right with two or 
three." 
The warfare of the ages has 



The Lost Word Found 49 

focalized at last on a tremendous 
scale in this twentieth century and 
in these United States of America. 
Poverty and Wealth, Labor and 
Capital, Socialism and Despotism, 
Co-operation and Competition, 
Freemasonry and Clericalism, these 
are but the * 'battalions" the "divi- 
sions," the "corps" of seemingly 
hostile legions arrayed against each 
other. 

Back of and beyond all these 
surface struggles and these warring 
armies lies the essential problem of 
human life. 

Other armies fight for temporal 
power and earthly dominion, but 



50 The Lost Word Found 

the issue between Materialism and 
Spiritism goes to the very heart of 
things. All other warfare is waged 
to determine how man shall live 
here; the ways and the means; the 
comfort and the welfare of the 
many, the whole, or only the few. 

But in the real issue, the ques- 
tion is, whether man shall live AT 
ALL. Is he an ephemeral phenom- 
enon, a passing show ? Or is his 
life real and enduring? Does he 
survive the cataclysms of time? 
Does he inherit the " Kingdom of 
Heaven?" May he achieve Immor- 
tality? 

A large majority of reputedly in- 



The Lost Word Found 5 1 

telligent persons will answer un- 
hesitatingly — * ' Nobody knows, 
ever did know, or ever can know. 
Those are things which belong to 
the unknowable." 

It is this "agnostic" gnosticism, 
this dogmatic nihilism, against which 
Sir Oliver Lodge, the great phys- 
ical scientist, in the name of science 
protests. 

Modern thought and the more 
advanced Scientists have worked 
up to this point and found an open 
door, though aside from subjective 
phenomena (mediumship) they have 
no exact theorem. They know not 
how to proceed. 



52 The Lost Word Found 

This exact and definite theorem 
challenges them in "The Great 
Work." 

Think for a moment what it 
would mean to the toiling, sorrow- 
ing, hoping and aspiring children 
of men, could an exact, definite, 
demonstrable and affirmative answer 
be given to the question of the 
ages — "If a man die, shall he live 
again?" Think what it would also 
mean if that affirmative answer 
could tell us where, and how, and 
under what conditions life persists 
beyond the grave, and exactly how 
conditions and the life lived here, 



The Lost Word Found 53 

determine the conditions of life 
there? 

Is it not worth while? 

This is precisely the question 
treated in "The Great Work." 

We sorely need genuine spiritual 
knowledge to illumine the dark 
places of the present life, to give 
the real meaning of life. Not 
from the vicissitudes of * 'three score 
years and ten" — which is even now 
far beyond the average — but with 
the vistas of a thousand years, 
"plane after plane revealed, with 
plane after plane beyond." 

And this knowledge comes in 
the present age peculiarly to Free- 



54 The Lost Word Found 

masonry, because the Craft is duly 
and truly prepared to nourish the 
tradition, preserve the landmarks, 
and ready to receive it, and not 
scout it and turn it away when the 
world sorely needs it, and the times 
seem propitious for its revelation. 
It comes to our Fraternity, with the 
hopeful assurance that here it will 
surely find some who are ready to 
receive it and pass it on from mouth 
to ear as they receive it, instead of 
crying — "away with it ! Crucify 
it!" 

In Galilee, there were "only a 
few fishermen" and the poor, who 
listened gladly. 



The Lost Word Found 55 

In America today, there are said 
to be over two million "just and 
upright Masons." How will they 
listen? Will they recognize the 
designs on the trestleboard? Will 
they pass from darkness to light? 
Will they still the confusion? Or 
will they, as did their Craftsmen 
of old, hide in the "caves" of ig- 
norance, and be judged at last by 
"the imprecations from their own 
mouths?" 

"O! that I had only known!" 
Will the listening ear and the 
faithful breast receive the instruc- 
tion? Alas! who can tell? 

And this "Great Work" is only 



56 The Lost Word Found 

the beginning, the "first lesson." 
More is ready to follow. 

Until the present time, the world 
had no nomenclature, no language 
in which the "things of the spirit" 
could be conveyed to the children 
of men. 

Paul "saw things impossible to 
utter." No one would understand 
him. The world had to work up to 
it, and now THE TIME HAS COME. 

It is not now the inability to 
apprehend as it was then. Today 
nothing could bar the way but the 
unwillingness to listen, the crass 
materialism that prejudges, scouts 
and denies without examination. 



The Lost Word Found 57 

There will be today no fudging 
of the pay-roll. Each will get 
exactly what he has earned, for it 
all depends on himself. 

An angel from heaven could 
not compel him to listen; and no 
real Master is likely to try, for he 
knows how useless it would be. 
He simply finds the listening ear 
and the faithful breast among other 
degrees of intelligence. 

Reference is here made to the 
"School of Natural Science," which 
deals only with "cold, hard facts;" 
to "The Great Work" and to the 
real "Master" now among us. 

No one is asked to "believe." 



58 The Lost Word Found 

All are invited to investigate, to 
examine carefully as the present 
writer has done, and then to reject 
or accept according to evidence and 
their own unbiased judgment. 
Otherwise, and without such ex- 
amination, any conclusion to which 
they may arrive is utterly worthless, 
either to themselves or others, as it 
could be only prejudice, due to 
credulity or incredulity, neither of 
which has ever yet led men to 
Light and Knowledge. 

There was, indeed, a Grand 
Masonic Word — the grandest 
Word, in truth, of which the 
Human Intelligence can conceive. 



The Lost Word Found 59 

But it was not a mere syllabic 
word, capable of being given and 
received by men of inferior intel- 
ligence or impure lives. 

It was the GRAND MASONIC 
WORD OF INSTRUCTION IN THE 
SPIRITUAL WISDOM OF THE MAS- 
TERS. It could be given by none 
but a MASTER OF THE GREAT 
SCHOOL, and received by none but 
him who was duly and truly pre- 
pared, worthy and well qualified to 
become such a MASTER. 

Many there are who have sought 
to unravel this great mystery. To 
this end great libraries have been 
written, only to bury the Lost 



60 The Lost Word Found 

Word more deeply beneath the 
rubbish of the Temple. 

The book of which I have 
written— "THE GREAT WORK" — 
is an exoteric presentation of the 
Grand Masonic Word that was lost. 
The author, a Master Mason, has 
received that ancient WORD OF IN- 
STRUCTION, and is today in po- 
sition to give it to those who can 
prove themselves duly and truly 
prepared, worthy and well quali- 
fied to receive it. 



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